FBA The Creator

Hi, Evilmaio! Let me thank you for this wonderful software, FBA. I'm living such a long time with thought in my mind, that mathematical kind of wit is the most inspired in the creative ambient. Mathematics - is the wit athletics, as my father always speaks. But regrettably I always was too visual to make even a line of code. Thats why I'm 3d modeller for now.
But I think, that yours FBA - is the best one for the first step, I can do at right direction . More so, I have recently happy to buy my little S-i710 universe, and have such a pleasure to find a tool, that can do many things with it
So, please, be patient with a beginner, if you can, and be inspired in your great deeds.

Btw, is it possible to create with FBA (in present state of engine) a project, such as Astraware Broken Sword (I know, it's old one and it needs a ton of artworks, but I like such a style very much, interactive toon story)? The second question is - is it possible to make many "layers" of overlapping sprites, that can be animated simultaneously? The third one - what does it means - FBA uses LUA? - I can't get it for now - I seek an official LUA website and I don't find any LUA commands in BFA.. Does it means, FBA was written in LUA?
The fourth, and the last question for now - is it possible to make a visual vector from the point, where I tap by a stylus, to the point, where I move it on?

Thanks again
Regards, Ovod

Hi, thanks and welcome to the forum



If you mean technically, yes it should be possible. FBA offer input handling, blitting, sounds playing and a scripting language; that's should be all you need for a graphic adventure



Of course, "layers" are just several draw operations done sequentially. Animation logic can be done inside your mainloop with the draw images functions..



No, FBA is written in C++; FBA uses LUA as its core scripting engine. This means all code you're going to write inside FBA, will use LUA syntax.



Just keep track of first point then draw a line or something else until current stylus position.

Here's a simple sample:

local PX = screenwidth() / 2
local PY = screenheight() / 2
local LX = PX
local LY = PY

function onmainloop()
        clear(0,0,0)
        line(PX, PY, LX, LY, 255,0,0)
        print(1,1,"PRESS YOUR STYLUS TO RESET START POINT", 0,0,255)        
end

function onstylusdown(x,y)
        PX=x
        PY=y
        LX=x
        LY=y
end

function onstylusmove(x,y)
        LX=x
        LY=y
end

Woooow) It works just the way I've imagine! Interesting, and very clear, thanks)



Ok) So, I think, I'll get some LUA practice for now. Looks like it has PocketPC port (_http://www.uoam.net/lua.html). Very nice)

"Game Programming with Python, Lua and Ruby."

Wow
Evilmaio? Sorry, is it possible to use 3d graphics with FBA Lua? How it can be realized, if possible? Is it some kind of side functions made in C? Or it's native Lua functions? I know, that even Quest3D realtime rendering engine uses Lua, but I don't know, how deeply. Maybe it's only used for logics..

Regards.

Yeah, you`re right. LUA in this kind of games is used to handle some game logic. Heavy 3d processing has to be done with a faster language, usually c++